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Certain as the sun Rising in the east Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the Beast Following the success of Cinderella and The Jungle Book, Disney will give their 1991 animated classic Beauty and the Beast the live-action treatment in 2017. The film is directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1-2, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh) and features the following cast: Emma Watson (Hermione in Harry Potter) as Belle Dan Stevens (Ian Katz in The Fifth Estate, Lancelot in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) as the Beast Luke Evans (Dracula Untold, Bard in The Hobbit) as Gaston Kevin Kline (still banging Phoebe Cates after three decades) as Maurice Josh Gad (Olaf in Frozen, Chuck in The Angry Birds Movie) as LeFou Ewan McGregor (Mark Renton in Trainspotting 1-2, Lincoln Six Echo in The Island) as Lumiere Emma Thompson (Professor Sybil in Harry Potter, Agent O in Men in Black III) as Mrs. Potts Ian McKellen (Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, Erik/Magneto in X-Men) as Cogsworth Stanley Tucci (Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Caesar in The Hunger Games) as Cadenza Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Famulus in Jupiter Ascending) as Babette Audra McDonald (Dr. Bennett in Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy) as the Wardrobe The film is set for release on May 17, 2017. Beauty and the Beast @ IMDb

The critically acclaimed film Trainspotting turns 20 this year, so director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and stars Ewan McGregor (Lincoln Six Echo in The Island, Lumiere in the live-action Beauty and the Beast), Ewen Bremner (Nelson in Black Hawk Down, Junior Angel in Judge Dredd), Jonny Lee Miller (Oren Goodchild in Æon Flux), Robert Carlyle (Gaz in The Full Monty, Don in 28 Weeks Later), and writer Irvine Welsh return to make a sequel. T2: Trainspotting 2 hits UK theaters on January 27, 2017 and U.S. theaters on February 3. T2: Trainspotting 2 @ IMDb

Another classic fairy tale hits the big screen this year. Directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men), Jack the Giant Slayer is the latest retelling of the fables Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Nicholas Hoult (Hank McCoy/Beast in X-Men: First Class, Marcus in About a Boy), Eleanor Tomlinson (Fiona in Alice in Wonderland), Stanley Tucci (Dr. Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger, Caesar in The Hunger Games), Ian McShane (Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), John Kassir (Crypt Keeper in Tales from the Crypt, Adam in Dead Rising), and Ewan McGregor (not like anyone here doesn't know him...). The film premiers in Asia on February 27-28 and in the U.S. on March 1 in 3D and IMAX. Official Site And what's a big-budget blockbuster without a competing mockbuster from The Asylum? Jack the Giant Killer